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SalarySenior Design Engineer
John Henry Foster has been helping customers solve problems since 1944. Making it easier for them to do business and doing it all with more expertise and a personal touch. Our founder, John Henry Foster, started as a traveling manufacturing representative, selling pneumatic equipment out of the back of his Airstream trailer. With unmatched service, expertise and quality products, John Henry built a strong foundation for the organization that stands today.
Although times have changed, and our business has grown, we still follow John Henry’s philosophy – “…Take care of the business and the business will take care of you.” With over 200 employee-owners, industry-trusted supplier partners, and a strong loyalty to our customers, we continue to grow as we provide quality products, expertise, convenience, and service that exceeds our customer expectations.
Today, we’re a 100% employee-owned company and looking to add a Senior Design Engineer to our team. Someone who values craftmanship and is committed to excellence and service and who can start making an immediate impact for our customers. Does this sound like you?
As a Senior Design Engineer your impact is two-fold:
- For the customer, your role is to analyze and understand their needs and design and build custom machines, or modify existing machines, to meet customer needs.
- For the team, your role is to work with the design team and be a technical problem solver. You’ll be a key part of delivering outstanding service and providing unique customer solutions.
Benefits Package
John Henry Foster is dedicated to ensuring our employee-owners achieve their career goals. We’re committed to the success of our team members and have a culture that emphasizes and fosters opportunities for both personal and professional growth.
This is a long-term, career-growth oriented position, and as such, the compensation package we’re offering is competitive: $85,000 - $107,000 (annually, based on experience), and includes opportunities for you to maximize your earning potential through education, experience, our ESOP, bonuses, and professional development programs.
Our Senior Design Engineers do a lot for us, which is why we give so much back in return. We have an excellent benefits package which includes:
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, HSA, and FSA plans.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- 401(k) with company contribution.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Meet with JHF Sales team and our customers to analyze and understand customer needs and requirements.
- Help determine which projects JHF should pursue and accept, given our in-house capabilities and resources.
- Design machine functionality to address or improve the customer process within the provided budget.
- Determine and develop preliminary design, review with engineering manager and sales, and get sign-off from customer.
- Determine cost of a mechanical system, including labor, and work with other departments to consolidate total project solution and costs.
- Develop 3D models using SolidWorks.
- Specify off-the-shelf and custom hardware components that will support the mechanical design, defaulting to JHF vendors whenever possible.
- Work with outside vendors for custom machined components when in-house resources are insufficient.
- Create bill of materials and build instructions.
- Responsible for final approval of mechanical design.
- Develop final project proposal and provide to engineering manager and sales for review and determination of final sell price.
- Manage multiple projects from start to finish, including customer run-off and start-up, and work with other departments within JHF to accomplish this.
- Assist with and direct machine build and assembly.
- Occasionally start-up mechanical system and ensure functionality at customer’s facilities.
- Prepare as-built documents for distribution to customer’s engineering staff and JHF repository.
- Mentor junior level engineering staff.
- Manage multi-department projects as assigned.
- Focus on department process improvements and SOPs.
- Spend time with outside Salesmen and Customers to help develop and present proposed solutions.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering and/or other specialized degree in engineering sciences as it relates to company products.
- Ideally 5 years of related experience in a similar role.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Familiarity with SolidWorks and AutoCAD.
